14-year-old girl killed in Danish amusement park ride accident when part of roller-coaster comes off rails

A 14-year-old lady died Thursday at a preferred amusement park in northern Denmark, police stated, reportedly when the rear a part of a roller-coaster journey got here off the rails.

A 13 year-old boy suffered accidents to 1 hand, police stated.

Henrik Ragborg Olsen, supervisor of the Tivoli Friheden amusement park in Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest metropolis, informed native newspaper Aarhus Stiftstidende that "the rear two seats" of the Cobraen roller-coaster had been hanging "below the wagon prepare."

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Police stroll outdoors the closed Tivoli Friheden amusement park, in Aarhus, western Denmark, after a 14-year-old lady was killed and a 13-year-old boy injured in a curler coaster accident, on July 14, 2022.

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Police stated they obtained a name at 12:50 p.m. that a automotive was caught in a journey in Tivoli Friheden and a number of other folks had been caught. Two folks had been sitting on the rear seats and had been taken by emergency employees, the newspaper reported. Ragborg Olsen informed the Ekstra Bladet each day that the 2 had been severely injured and had been taken to the hospital.

The accident occurred on the Cobraen roller-coaster and the park has been shut down, police stated.

An investigation has been launched into what triggered the accident with police questioning witnesses.

The roller-coaster is 25 meters (82 ft) tall and the wagons have a prime pace of 70 kilometers per hour (44 mph), based on the Tivoli Friheden Web site.

The amusement park sits within the southern a part of Aarhus, 156 kilometers (97 miles) northwest of Copenhagen.

The curler coaster was the scene of an accident in 2008, shortly after it opened.

At the moment, it was the entrance half that broke away, leaving 4 folks severely injured.

An investigation revealed a development error.

AFP contributed to this report.

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